***BROOKLYN’S POV***

I watched in horror as the masked man appeared from behind the cabin, Kate and Lyle were totally oblivious to his presence. I screamed, seeing the man lift the axe into the air and knowing he was aiming for Kate, not Lyle. 

Even though he was a good twenty feet away from Kate, I knew her fate. I screamed, “Kate!” I felt my finger point towards the man and Kate’s eyes widened. 

As if she knew exactly what was going to happen. 

The axe sliced through the air, everything happened in slow motion as I witnessed the most horrific event I had ever seen. The axe hit Kate in the back, she screamed out in pain, and I felt my legs weaken, my entire world shattered.

My eyes were fixated on the blade of the axe that was sticking out from between her breasts, and as if mimicking my actions, she fell to her knees to. 

I gagged, cried, but as I watched my best friend fall face down into the ground, everything I knew was over. My heart felt like it had collapsed completely, and even if I was hidden in the dark forest thirty yards away from Kate… and that man… I knew I was still in danger. 

I just didn’t care anymore. 

I felt someone grabbing on my hand, pulling me up but I was lifeless, numb to the world, and everything that was happening. 

But my body responded. 

I was running, besides Allison and Lyle, I didn’t know exactly where we were going but as soon as my mind started to come back to me I felt the ground give way under my feet. 

I fell, down, and for a couple of seconds I thought I was dead, but when I hit the bottom of this pit I was in I realized I wasn’t.

But I wish I was. 

I was kneeling on top of something soft, and I was to afraid to look down, praying to God it wasn’t what I thought it was. I looked at Allison and Lyle who were above me, the hole was probably 8 feet deep, I whimpered, “Run!”

They looked at me with complete shock, and then Lyle muttered, “We’re coming back.”

Then they were gone. 

I stood, stepping off of Zeke’s lifeless body, I cringed, gagged, and finally, I threw up. It was in the corner of this hole, and I saw Nathan’s body to, under Zeke’s. 

He was throwing our bodies into this goddamn pit!

Then I heard rustling above me. 

I pressed my back against the dirt wall, it was dark down here, and I could barely make out Zeke’s body if it wasn’t for his head that was missing. 

I knew if he looked down here he wouldn’t be able to see me, but I was still horrified because I knew exactly who else was going to be joining me down here. 

I looked up, seeing the masked man, the blood splatters covering the white mask underneath. I held my hand over my mouth, trying not to cry out in horror as my eyes studied his form. 

He was tall, the mask only having holes for his eyes, and Kate’s lifeless head rolled over the edge of the pit. He yanked the axe out of her back, and I heard the crunching of her ribs, and I cringed, feeling the tears escape from my eyes. 

Then he pushed her body over the edge, and she fell the dropping 8 feet and landed with a thud on top of Zeke’s body. I jumped, feeling my heart wanting to explode out of my chest, I looked up, seeing the man gaze down at Kate’s body, and then disappear into the woods. 

I shrunk down into a fetal position, clutching my knees and crying silently. I looked at Kate, her eyes were still open, and I felt the pain in my heart worsen. I wanted to scream, I wanted her to wake up, I wanted to wake her up and tell her I’m so sorry.

So sorry I didn’t warn her about this place when I had the chance. Tell her I was sorry for not helping her, tell her I was going to miss her, tell her that I didn’t want to leave without her. 

I crawled over to her, closing her eyes with my fingertips, and crawling back to the corner. 

I felt the tears roll down my cheeks silently as I kept them closed, to afraid to even open them and witness this horrific scene in front of me. I didn’t want to look at Kate’s bloody body, I wanted to go  home, I just wanted to go home…

The pain in my heart had intensified, it was aching, like your first heartbreak, you know, the horrible one, the one that traumatizes you for life. 

Except this pain was ten times worse. 

You know that feeling when you’re riding a roller-coaster, and right before you go down the drop your eyes take in all of the space around you? You see how far up you are, and you get that anxiety, panic feeling? That’s what I was feeling, I couldn’t calm my heart, I couldn’t get over the fact that this was actually happening. 

But it was.

I was stuck in this goddamn hole with my three dead best friends, I couldn’t stop crying, it smelt like death, and it was so hot. I was sweating, and I was exhausted, and we were so close to the car keys, so close to freedom. 

If I would’ve grabbed them… Kate would’ve made it out. She wouldn’t be lying here in front of me, lifeless, bloody.

She wouldn’t have died terrified.

But she did, and I was looking at her right now, and I couldn’t stop the overwhelming tears from running down my face. 

It had felt like an entire three hours had passed since I had fell down here, and my legs were aching. My clothes were sticking to my damp body, my hair was in knots, my hands were shaking vigorously, and I couldn’t breathe. 

What if Allison and Lyle never came back for me? What if they died, and I would witness the dumping of their bodies? Then be buried alive with my five dead best friends…

What the fuck was I going to do then?

I prayed, Allison and Lyle had to come back to get me… they couldn’t leave me down here. They couldn’t leave me to die in this hell hole…

Could they?

No, stop Brooklyn, don’t think like that. Allison would never leave without you, she wouldn’t forget about you like that…

But she’s done it before. 

I shook my head at my inner thoughts, this was way different, this was life and death, this wasn’t just about love. It was about human ethics for Christ’s sake! She would never leave me here to die, that was just against moral code…

I was trying to block out the horrible thoughts as I was stuck here, waiting for my tow friends to rescue me. How could I be so stupid to fall into a hole? Much less a hole that he was dumping the dead bodies?

I continued to pull my eyes away from Kate, I couldn’t look at her anymore, it just couldn’t. I would get sick to my stomach, and I already threw up, I just couldn’t look at her anymore. 

Even though I didn’t want to leave their bodies behind… I didn’t think getting them out of here was going to be easy. 

I felt like I needed to bring them home to their families, that they deserved to at least know we didn’t leave them here in this hell of a place… I felt like if I left them… I was still leaving my three best friends behind to die…

Even though they were already gone. 

I felt the tears well up in  my eyes once more, and I rested my head back, feeling my heart beat inside my empty chest. Sitting down here was literally killing me, I could feel my chest caving in from the pain, and I was hoping that Allison and Lyle were ok.

And hopefully on their way to rescue me. 

I closed my eyes, feeling as if I was going to be stuck here forever, rot away with Kate, Zeke, and Nathan… I listened to my breathing, the outside air, and the humid summer weather wrapped around me. It felt as if it was suffocating me, cutting me off from the outside world that was now 8 feet above me. 

Then as if my alarm had woken me up from my deep sleep, I jumped up, hearing an ear piercing scream echo through the lonely woods. 

It was Allison.